Trouble Witches turns into Tomboy Witches

sfried · Post by **sfried** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:55 am

insertcredit wrote:"Doujin circle Studio Siesta has announced The TOMBOYISH WITCHES, an English version of their horizontal scrolling shooter Trouble Witches. They're planning to sell the English version to foreign audiences only and will not be selling it within Japan.

<Brandon's note:> As far as I know, this is the first attempt by any japanese doujin company to do something of this nature. Pretty neat, and well overdue...these games are hard to get out here."

http://trouble_witches.mails.ne.jp/tw_eng.htm

Funny, the page they've put up still isn't in English. But by the looks of it, it's MegaDrive Zero Wing all over again:
[img]http://trouble_witches.mails.ne.jp/eng/TW_eng03.jpg[/img]
[img]http://trouble_witches.mails.ne.jp/eng/TW_eng04.jpg[/img]
(Not that I'm complaining. Will they hire English-speaking VA's as well?)

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:03 am

It's a very regular difficulty indeed.

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:40 pm

I guess it's better than nothing, although that translation looks terrible just from what we've seen of the menus. I can't imagine how bad the story dialog will be translated.

Well whatever, I like the game enough I'll probably buy it anyway, if just to get a basic idea of the story, and possibly get some funny screenshots out of it. -___-

Fudoh · Post by **Fudoh** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:45 pm

Are there any problems with the japanese version on english Windows systems ??? Or what's the reason for this release ?

postman · Post by **postman** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:13 pm

The Japanese version runs fine for me, like with most doujins. I think Studio Siesta just wants to expand their market.

Lili-Xiang · Post by **Lili-Xiang** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:22 pm

I was only able to get the demo at the bottom of the page, do the other
"patch" files need to be with it to update it? Do I need only one, or all of them
in order?

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:22 pm

You only need the latest one, and you can't patch the demo.

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:03 am

Opps... I just bought the Japanese version....

Where could I find the English version?

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:43 am

"I have butterflies in your stomach!"

AWSOME!

Iaspis · Post by **Iaspis** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:35 pm

"It's a regular difficulty"

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:50 pm

I find it interesting how Pril's feature is listed as "boob" when the other two characters have a bigger chest.

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:14 pm

Also, it is Tomboyish Witches, which is an even more ridiculous name.

Lili-Xiang · Post by **Lili-Xiang** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:14 pm

aww... too bad I can't buy it. Parents said "HELL NO!!" as always...

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:02 am

Lili-Xiang wrote:aww... too bad I can't buy it. Parents said "HELL NO!!" as always...

Well... you could always... um... download it off the internet...

dmauro wrote:

Also, it is Tomboyish Witches, which is an even more ridiculous name.

Oh LOL. Also the name change is pretty bad, how exactly are those witches tomboys?

Lili-Xiang · Post by **Lili-Xiang** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:56 pm

...well, you were right. but I HATE stage 4 (Magma Field)... too many
bullet-hell reeking destroyers around fire-spewing asteroids ruined
everything! I didn't take a scratch untill THAT part! The boss was even
worse, but reminded me of something from Gradius and R-Type put together.

Problem was the enemy units were leeching lives too damn much and I only
had 1 left, then my buttside.. which wasn't enough for that fight. First time I
made it THAT far, because in the demo, I lost at stage 2's boss (the twins)
from the last girl left pulled a blow which I didn't even see.

That's what happens to me from staying away from games and into too much
school WAY too long.

I sucked like crap... しまった！

Oh, um... and I used the girl who's at the top of THIS page.

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:53 pm

Stage 4 gets pretty tricky in places, but it's not really that hard on Normal difficulty. As for the boss, it's really easy once you know what you have to do and see the simple pattern in follows. You can mash on the gates to get to the core really quickly, then just knock out the flame thrower walls when the core forces you to move around behind it.

Also, you can always get the Barrier spell card and use it any time you think you are going to get hit. I usually buy one in Stage 3 and sit on it until I need it (which is usually not until Stage 5 most of the time).

The manual is also wrong in that you can stock multiple of the same spell cards, including Barrier. Barrier is really, really good... but of course also very expensive and you don't get any money back for them like other spell cards.

When it comes to your character (Yuuki), personally I think she is the worst of the characters. All of her damage comes from her Familiar, which means if you are using your magic circle, you will do shit for damage. Keep that in mind as you'll have to work around it. It also makes familiar spell cards fairly worthless for her.

Lili-Xiang · Post by **Lili-Xiang** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:15 pm

Eep, no wonder why things were getting hard on that stage...

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:24 pm

Stage 4 isn't that bad. I have a recording of it, but I didn't upload it yet because.... I'm lazy.

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:24 am

I'll be surprised if they also go through the process of putting in English voices (although they COULD turn out bad)

Lili-Xiang · Post by **Lili-Xiang** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:57 pm

ZeetherKID77 wrote:I'll be surprised if they also go through the process of putting in English voices (although they COULD turn out bad)

Won't be amused if they did sound horrible in English mode. Sometimes
Better, but most times worse. For the boys however, it can be backwards.